so finally i got a bike today! :w00t: it was a surprise too!! :D:D Mr. Alex Gold was so sweet and generous to get me one! he and his Dad drove all the way to Derbyshire to get it!! :w00t:
sadly it’s the only bike i can get on and put both feet on the ground and feel comfortable with i am a total newbie when it comes to riding. i’ve always been a Pillion sooo…i feel very uncomfortable when my feet can’t reach the ground properly
but i think this is it i applied for my license (they didn’t want my California license! hope to God that they don’t lose my passport or i’ll wage war :D) last week and now just waiting for it then CBT! woohoo! :D:D
wish me luck everyone!!! i hope i am not TOO old to learn to ride! eeeeeeeek
Well she was banned from seeing it for a week, we picked it up and it was a right shitter, with a completely siezed engine. Luck and about 40 hours work between me and my dad got it to a nice looking bike!
I guess in a month or so we may be joining you for a ride Tim
Alex you and your Dad have done good Excellent choice, I had one for the three months between my CBT and DAS, great little bike, it survived being dropped a few times :hehe:
This one looks very nice, as does the new owner
I hope you’re pleased with it, Speedjunky. All the best with your CBT etc, and ride safe
thanks everyone!!! :D:D:D i am so glad that my very first bike is a Yamaha
i am very nervous… but also very excited!! :rolleyes:
i do have a proper kit i didn’t wear because the moment was a surprise and i wasn’t planning on riding it really. the car park was my best place to just test it and i was going really slow. Alex was yelling at me to go fast but maybe i was too focus on the bike that i didn’t hear him :D:D it was a 5 lap ride around the car park. it was nice because that was my very 2nd time riding on any bike and having to remember so many things at once!! :w00t: hopefully i’ll get used to it and like it! so how did you all get use to it? i don’t know how to drive a manual car (yeah you know…American cars etc. ) and the only manual thing i’ve ever done is a Quad for about 1 day! so i am sooo NEW to this!
now just waiting for my bloody license to come (with my passport!)
:D:D Mr. Alex Gold was so sweet and generous to get me one! 
he and his Dad drove all the way to Derbyshire to get it!! :w00t: 
i am a total newbie when it comes to riding. i’ve always been a Pillion sooo…i feel very uncomfortable when my feet can’t reach the ground properly 
i hope i am not TOO old to learn to ride! eeeeeeeek
good luck
but also very excited!! :rolleyes: 